These essays contrast the entering of the otherwise isolated China by Russian explorers and American missionaries: the Americans heading west, the Russians heading east.

An excerpt from “American Missionaries and Russian Explorers Close in on China”:

“It is my interest in this paper to investigate briefly into the philosophy behind the missionary movement, to give and outline a review of the missionary movement itself, to describe by means of biographical comment some of the most prominent of the early China missionaries, and to conclude with some of the evaluations or summarizations of the missionary movement.”

About the Author
Retired Col. George W. Carrington served as U.S. Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff in the 1960s. His military career spanned World War II, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. He is also the author of “Foreigners in Formosa,” “Through Peking’s Sewer Gate,” “Adventures and Misadventures in the Life and Some of the Times of George W. Carrington,” “Thoughts of Being a Marine” and “I Chose to Be a U.S. Marine.”

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